Okay I kind of pigged out on movies this weekend. I'm still tired a lot, and relaxing with a movie and a glass of wine is a lot more appealing than, say, cleaning out my basement. Which I really need to do. But I digress.

The Green Butchers: Okay, you either think cannibalism is funny or you don't. Either you laughed your ass off at "Eating Raul" ( Read more... )

I've blogged about some of the movies from last year's Horrorfest, I believe, but they're out on DVD now, so I feel compelled to review them as a body. So to speak. So here they are, in the order that I liked them.

1. Mulberry Street 
This was the festival standout. Set in New York, it's a variation on the "infections zombies" theme. But the ( Read more... )

Just saw "The Orphanage" last night. It was amazing, gorgeous and spooky. They're advertising it as this year's Pan's Labyrinth, but it's more like this year's Devil's Backbone. The house it's set in is GORGEOUS and I want to live there. I don't want to say too much about the plot\, because it's twisty and turny and full of surprises. I will warn ( Read more... )

Here's a picture of the devil dog with a feather duster on his head from Devil Dog: Hound of Hell. (Scroll down a little. But not too far or you'll see Richard Crenna.)

And a screamingly funny review of the movie.

I'm buyin' the DVD.

Just many of the deathless lines from the movie "Devil Dog, Hound of Hell," made for TV in 1978.

I had SUCH a hard time picking which line to use for the subject. There was "He gives me a berry scary peeling! I have pelt it before!" And "Oh, too bad it's not a one-eyed demon. They're not the brightest." And "Is Lucky a barghest?"

This movie has an ( Read more... )

"Hatchet" advertises itself as "Old-School American Horror." To a certain degree, it is. As you can guess by the title, it's a slasher flick. Set in the swamp outside New Orleans, the featured villain is one Victor Crowley, undead-deformed-mutated-pissed-off redneck from Hell. A group of people go on a swamp tour at night, run afoul of Victor, and ( Read more... )

I first saw "Perdita Durango" on HBO a number of years back under its American release title, "Dance With The Devil." I loved it. I loved it so much that I went out and bought the DVD.

Was I ever surprised when I watched it! The version I saw on HBO had been severely edited--edited to the point that it actually changed the meaning of some of the ( Read more... )